Meaning, Thought and Reality.

Meaning, Thought and Reality.

1. Mental Representation

   • Sense
     • World
     • Word
     • LEVEL OF MENTAL REPRESENTATION
   • RESEMBLANCE
     • Serious problems with common nouns
     • The variation in images of a common noun depending on their experience

2. Prototypes

   • It ‘s a group of categories
   • Words are in a network of semantic links with other words and it is reasonable to asume that conceptual structures are similarly linked.

3. References

   • Referential Possibilities of Nouns and Phrases
     • Expressions such as “so, very, maybe, if, not, all” do not identify entities in the world. These are intrinsically non-referring ítems.
   • Potentially referring expressions
     • They performed a cholecystectomy today // A cholecystectomy is a serious procedure.

4. Language Relativity

   • Direct translation between languages is not alwas possible
   • The language is based in our form of think and process information
   • It deppends of the Linguistic determinism